Report of success with SP and IdP test servers, apache 1.3, nginx and SSL off-loading

[Peter Schober]

* Gernot Hassenpflug <ha4h-grnt at asahi-net.or.jp> [2012-04-27 08:06]:
> (In my original post we were using nginx as front-end server, and
> unfortunately I was not able yet to get FastCGI (path problems to
> begin with) to run the .sso programs.)

And then there's still this issue with Nginx:

"Nginx has fastcgi responder support but not the "authorizer" mode
needed for the filter. Until this support exists nginx cannot be used
in this way."
https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/NativeSPFastCGIConfig

Unless that has changed in the meanwhile, of course.
-peter